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SLIDESHOW: Trump's inner circle
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SLIDESHOW: SENATORS ARRIVE FOR PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS
John McCain and Marco Rubio. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Ted Cruz. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Harry Reid. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Trump eyeing Mnuchin and Ross for economy jobs: Icahn
ReutersLongtime Donald Trump supporter and activist investor Carl Icahn confirmed on Tuesday that the president-elect is looking at Wall Street veteran Steven Mnuchin as his choice for treasury secretary and billionaire Wilbur Ross for commerce secretary. -
U.S. Economic Confidence Surges After Election
Gallup.comAmericans' confidence in the U.S. economy soared after the election, mostly because Republicans became much less negative about the economy's outlook. -
Ford going ahead with moving small car production to Mexico: CEO
ReutersFord Motor Co (F.N) is moving ahead with plans to shift production of small cars to Mexico from Michigan, while "two very important products" will be built in its U.S. factories, Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields told Reuters on Tuesday. -
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Republican Ben Carson opts against job in Trump Cabinet
ReutersRetired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a former 2016 Republican presidential candidate who is an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, has opted against accepting a Cabinet position in the Trump administration, his spokesman said on Tuesday. -
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North Korea doesn't care who's presidentNorth Korea does not care who is president of the United States, a senior Pyongyang-based diplomat said during a visit to the United Nations following the election of Donald Trump..Kim Yong Ho, director of human rights and humanitarian issues, spoke to reporters after a U.N. General Assembly committee approved a draft resolution condemning "widespread and gross violations of human rights" in the Asian state.
We do not care about whoever becomes the president of the United States," Kim said. "The fundamental issue here is whether or not the United States has the political will to withdraw its hostile policy toward the DPRK (North Korea).
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Turkey eyes reset with U.S. under Trump, but honeymoon may be brief
ReutersIn the hours after Donald Trump secured the U.S. presidency, supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan triumphantly took to social media, hailing the election of a man who had threatened to ban Muslims from entering the United States. -
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Trump campaign "Make America Great Again" hats wait for House Republicans on their seats as they arrive to a caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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SEC Chair White to time her exit from agency with Obama's
ReutersU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White plans to step down around the same time President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office, the agency said on Monday. -
U.S. internet firms ask Trump to support encryption, ease regulations
ReutersU.S. internet companies including Facebook Inc and Amazon Inc have sent President-elect Donald Trump a detailed list of their policy priorities, which includes promoting strong encryption, immigration reform and maintaining liability protections from content that users share on their platforms. -
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The Kremlin also said that Putin and Trump had agreed to work to channel bilateral relationships into constructive cooperation, and that they would combined efforts to tackle international terrorism and extremism.It said Putin and Trump would continue contact by phone and would work towards meeting in person.
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Oil and gas mogul Hamm tops Trump short-list for U.S. energy secretary: sources
ReutersContinental Resources Chief Executive Harold Hamm is at the top of President-elect Donald Trump's list to serve as energy secretary, according to U.S. Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, a Trump energy adviser who confirmed he is also under consideration for the job. -
Breakingviews' Rob Cox on the good case for working in Trump's White HouseThough Trump has amassed personal riches of undisclosed dimensions and vanquished Hillary Clinton, a practiced politico, the New York real-estate developer will, by a wide margin, be the least experienced man to ever occupy the Oval Office and control the world's reserve currency and America's nuclear codes.This brings a historical urgency to recruiting world-class talent to help him run the federal bureaucracy and to sweat policy details, a task the curiosity-deficient Trump has no demonstrated inclination, nor capability, of performing.
Given this squalid reality, the greatest chance of avoiding failure for the U.S. economy may reside in Trump adopting the sort of corporate approach that has proven to work in the business world, one where he acts as a sort of chairman of the board, delegating unprecedented authority to Cabinet chiefs, they way he did hoteliers and construction contractors at the Trump Organization.
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Exclusive: Audit of U.S. stress test ready, may aid Dodd Frank overhaul fight
ReutersA independent study of the financial costs and benefits of Wall Street 'stress tests' could be released as soon as Tuesday and may strengthen calls to reform U.S. banking rules, said sources familiar with the report. -
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Police in New York were investigating two cases involving swastikas drawn or painted in public spaces, as civil rights activists said there had been a surge in hate crimes following last week's U.S presidential election.Surveillance video was released of a suspect wearing a gray sweater and backpack, who is believed to have spray-painted a large swastika in front of a 78-year-old man's home in Brooklyn on Saturday, police said. The man's residence is in the borough's Crown Heights section, a predominantly Jewish area.
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Women wearing Make America Great Again hats sit at a table at Trump Bar at the offices of President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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OUTRAGE AT BANNON'S APPOINTMENT AS KEY TRUMP AIDE
Critics have blasted the selection of right-wing firebrand Stephen Bannon as a key aide, saying it would elevate the white nationalist movement into the top levels of the White House.
Bannon, who spearheaded a shift of the Breitbart News website into a forum for the "alt-right," a loose online group of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites.
There should be no sugarcoating the truth here: Donald Trump just invited a white nationalist into the highest reaches of the government."
"Bannon has boasted that he made Breitbart News ‘the platform for the alt-right,’ which is the politically correct term for the resurrection of white nationalism."
- Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, who called on Trump to rescind the choice
Democrats and advocacy groups on the left called Bannon a promoter of racism and misogyny who is backed by the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan.
It is a sad day when a man who presided over the premier website of the ‘alt-right’- a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists - is slated to be a senior staff member in the ‘people’s house'."
- Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League
Even some conservatives and Republicans voiced dismay. Evan McMullin, who ran as a conservative independent presidential candidate, wondered on Twitter if any national Republican leaders would condemn the pick of "anti-Semite" Bannon.
John Weaver, a top strategist for Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich, tweeted that the "racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant America." Kasich was one of 16 Republican presidential hopefuls Trump defeated in the party primaries ahead of last Tuesday's election.
The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant America.4:47 PM - 13 Nov 2016- Reply
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Reince Priebus, who will be Trump's chief of staff, defended Bannon today, calling him a wise and well-educated former naval officer and saying he had not encountered the sort of extremist or racist views that critics are assailing.
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.@IngrahamAngle under serious consideration for White House press secretary, sources tell @DanaBashCNN and @Acosta12:52 PM - 14 Nov 2016
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I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to the people where I came from.10:55 AM - 14 Nov 2016
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The Democratic Party has to stand with working people, feel their pain and take on the billionaire class, Wall Street and drug companies.11:46 AM - 14 Nov 2016- Reply
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Plane taking Brazilian soccer team to cup final in Colombia crashes, 71 dead
LA UNION, Colombia/ CHAPECO, Brazil A plane taking Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to a South American cup final crashed in Colombia after reporting an electrical fault, killing 71 people, including most of the team and accompanying journalists. | Video
